| noun | a tight cluster of people or things “a small knot of women listened to his sermon” |
| noun | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
| noun | a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged “the saw buckled when it hit a knot” |
| noun | something twisted and tight and swollen “their muscles stood out in knots” |
| noun | a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude |
| noun | soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design |
| noun | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere |
| verb | make into knots; make knots out of “She knotted her fingers” |
| verb | tie or fasten into a knot “knot the shoelaces” |
| verb | tangle or complicate “a ravelled story” |
| knotty | adjective | tangled in knots or snarls |
| knot | verb | tie or fasten into a knot |
| gnarly | adjective | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots |
| gnarl | verb | twist into a state of deformity |
| miler | noun | (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles |
| burl | verb | remove the burls from cloth |
| knot | noun | something twisted and tight and swollen |
| ravel | noun | a row of unravelled stitches |
| tangle | noun | something jumbled or confused |